colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (07/07/85)
["The blatantly obvious things we take for granted never escape his keen eye!"]
Why this debate over independence vs. interdependence? Surely it's a question
of scale.
You don't use libertarian principles on your spouse or babies. Neither do
you take personal responsibility for your millions of compatriots.
Enlightenment-style democracy is a system for large, anonymous masses of
people. It didn't exist until the standardization of language made such
masses possible. And it won't exist after electronic communication makes
anonymity impossible.
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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